At Mass we found out that the Korean priest was recently ordained and after Mass he called us up and gave us each a blessing! Yes! I don't know ANY Korean, so I just smiled a lot, said thank you, and tried to look very appreciative :).
It was rainy and cold while we ate our breakfast so we tried to wait it out. At nine it was still the same so set off, covered in our rain gear.
Several hours of rain and very cold wind later, it lightened up a bit. Then came the mud. Big, thick, chunky, clay type mud, the kind that sticks to your boots and makes them feel a few pounds heavier. Even with all that it still felt like a good day because we were walking!
Our friend Jane walked with us the whole day. She thinks I look like Maggie Simpson. It seems like she may stick with us for a few more days, which is great!
Here's Jane and Emily walking in the rain. This is before the mucky mud part.
The wind made it quite cold. I always like it when you can see our trail way off in fe distance.
Even the sunflowers hated the weather and the mud. Fields and fields of sad miserable sunflowers :( I just thought they were so depressing-looking I had to take a picture. It could be used for one if those "de-motivational" posters! Haha
At the edge of Hontanas, the village where we're staying tonight, we saw this! Apparently she made a pilgrimage to Santiago with her husband. Pretty cool to be walking the same way as so many saints! Although, I'm sure it was A LOT tougher for them than it is for us now.
I'm thankful I feel better! I'm thankful for Mass this morning and for the Korean group.
I'm learning that most of what I'm learning on this Camino I won't really see until after the camino is finished. Like in life, you never really know exactly what's going on or why, especially in difficult things, until after the fact.
Oh! And my feet, everyone wants to know about my feet! Haha The new shoes did great today, even with the awful mud sticking to them! I'm happy to report there are no new blisters! And 8 of my 10 blisters are completely healed! Seems like that magical 2 week mark may be true after all. We have a long day tomorrow so we'll see!